Memoirs of a Not Altogether Shy Pornographer Memoirs of a Not Altogether Shy Pornographer

Memoirs of a Not Altogether Shy Pornographer

Selected and Introduced by Jonathan Lethem

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Publisher Description

In this funny and telling portrait of the artist as a young pornographer, Bernard Wolfe chronicles his own unlikely entrance into the world of letters. The year was 1936, and Depression laden America had no great need for a Yale Phi Bete whose primary talent was for words. After working variously as a secretary–bodyguard for Leon Trotsky in Mexico, a cataloger of the Irving Fisher papers, and a hopelessly inept drill–grinder, Wolfe landed his first professional writing job: turning out piecework porn at $2.00 a page for an Oklahoma millionaire. He credited his pornographic efforts with teaching him to write to specified lengths while facing deadlines: "I acquired the work discipline of a professional writer, capable of a solid daily output."

GENRE
Biography
RELEASED
2016
1 March
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
316
Pages
PUBLISHER
Catapult
SIZE
3.1
MB

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